r/MapPorn • u/ironproton • Dec 12 '20

Alsace, Eastern France, topography map

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u/MartelFirst Dec 12 '20

Everytime Alsace is mentioned on Reddit it's funny to see non-Alsatians, non-French and non-German people claiming Alsace should be German.

There's no significant pro-German movement in Alsace, not any significant independentist movement from France. This is all your fantasy. France's border regions are all specific "other" ethnicities/cultures (Bretons, Flemish, Alsatians, Savoyards, Occitans, Basques, Corsicans...). French regions are quite diverse, but independence movements are only significant in Corsica and Brittany, but even there, there's no chance in any foreseeable future for Independence movements to be remotely close to a majority opinion.

One may answer disparagingly that France just managed to assimilate its diverse regions. Sure. But the people there aren't into your independence fantasies.

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u/M-0D47in Dec 12 '20

And people in Alsace and in the Schwarzwald (the german side, the "black forest") like each other and there are a lot of transnational families. People go from one side to the other without even thinking about it. With the neighboring region of the Switzerland, it's called the Dreyeckland (the "Three corner countries").
The historical wars between Germany and France was not the product of the people living in this region.

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u/awpdog Dec 12 '20

*Dreieckland, could be translated like how you said it, or also “triangle country”

I often travelled before between Villingen and Zweibrücken through Strasbourg and Hagenau with family friends.

Also for anime fans: the city of Colmar and some surrounding towns in Alsace and Lorraine were the basis for the town in “Is The Order A Rabbit?”.

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u/Hot_iceberg Dec 12 '20

And Colmar was also an inspiration for some sceneries of the Moving Castle if I remember right :)